Half Of All Women Still Don't Know This About Conceiving

Trying to get pregnant? Make sure you know the bottom line on baby-making.

Ditch the birth control and get busy. That's all it takes to make a baby, right? Not always: Many lifestyle factors may impede on your journey to motherhood. Still, many women are ill-informed when it comes to fertility, according to a new study published in Fertility & Sterility.

When researchers at the Yale School of Medicine surveyed 1,000 American women from 18 to 40-years-old, they found that many women are unaware of factors that affect their fertility. (They also found that 30 percent of the same group visit an OB-GYN less than once a year or — gulp — never!)